Euphemia of Chalcedon (church) - ܛܘܒܢܝܬܐ ܐܘܦܡܝܐ
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“Having suffered martyrdom in the Galerian persecution around 303, Euphemia was venerated as saint. A church was constructed above her tomb in Chalcedon within some decades of her death. The council of Chalcedon took place in this church in 451 and it was eventually destroyed during the Persian siege of 626. Joh. Eph., EH 1.41, notes that Paul the Jew, patriarch of Antioch 519-521, had been presbyter at this church.” 4
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“Having suffered martyrdom in the Galerian persecution around 303, Euphemia was venerated as saint. A church was constructed above her tomb in Chalcedon within some decades of her death. The council of Chalcedon took place in this church in 451 and it was eventually destroyed during the Persian siege of 626. Joh. Eph., EH 1.41, notes that Paul the Jew, patriarch of Antioch 519-521, had been presbyter at this church.” 4
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- 1 Alexander P. Kazhdan (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)., p: 747.
- 2 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 50, chapter: 3.1.41.
- 3 Raymond Janin, Les Eglises et les monastères des grands centres byzantins (Paris: Institut français d'Etudes byzantines, 1975)., p: 31.
- 4 Raymond Janin, Les Eglises et les monastères des grands centres byzantins (Paris: Institut français d'Etudes byzantines, 1975)., p: 31-33.
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